The ultra-popular game Flappy Bird, removed from the App Store in 2014, may be making a comeback in the form of an interactive macOS notification. The current Mac operating system is macOS, originally named 'Mac OS X' until 2012 and then 'OS X' until 2016. Developed between 1997 and 2001 after Apple's purchase of NeXT, Mac OS X brought an entirely new architecture based on NeXTSTEP, a Unix system, that eliminated many of the technical challenges that the classic Mac OS faced. Bird Process Running on My Mac The short answer is that the bird process Mac is the back end process behind iCloud and iCloud drive. It can sit there on your Mac computer at 100 percent CPU usage all the time, without appearing to accomplish anything. You cannot delete it as well.

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In a short video posted to Twitter, an iOS engineer has shown that it's possible to play 'Flappy Bird' directly within a macOS push notification.

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Neil Sardesai posted a short video to Twitter showing a macOS notification that contained a playable version of the infamous 'Flappy Bird.'

Did you know you can put a whole game inside of a push notification pic.twitter.com/LlMx2AjvHH

— Neil Sardesai (@neilsardesai) April 9, 2021

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'The UserNotificationsUI framework was added to macOS in Big Sur,' he said in a follow-up Tweet. 'But for some reason there's no Xcode template for Notification Content Extensions on macOS. So you have to make one for iOS and then change all your UI's to NS's.'

Sardesai's Twitter account plays host to a number of other interesting macOS tricks, too. This includes a video that shows him manipulating hexagonal windows within macOS and one where he plays The Google Chrome Dinosaur Game in the macOS menu bar.

The 'Flappy Bird' notification game isn't available to the public as of right now. It still serves to show that there are plenty of creative things that developers can do with macOS.

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